AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Graphics Card

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Specifications

Generation
Southern Islands
GPU model
Tahiti
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Base clock
1000 MHz
Memory size
3 GB
DirectX
12 (11_1)
Release date
Jun 22nd, 2012

Graphics Processor

GPU model
Tahiti
GPU variant
Tahiti XT2 (215-0821065)
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Foundry
TSMC
Manufacturing process
28 nm
Number of transistors
4,313 million
Die size
352 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date
Jun 22nd, 2012
Generation
Southern Islands
Production
End-of-life
Launch price
499 USD
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews
191 in our database
Predecessor
Northern Islands
Successor
Sea Islands

Clocks

Base clock
1000 MHz
Boost clock
1050 MHz
Memory clock
1500 MHz 6 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size
3 GB
Memory type
GDDR5
Memory bus width
384 bit
Bandwidth
288.0 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units
2048
TMUs
128
ROPs
32
Compute units
32
Cache L1
16 KB (per CU)
Cache L2
768 KB

Performance

Pixel rate
33.60 GPixel/s
Texture rate
134.4 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance
4.301 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance
1,075 GFLOPS (1:4)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width
Dual-slot
Length
275 mm 10.8 inches
Width
111 mm 4.4 inches
Height
38 mm 1.5 inches
TDP
300 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
Outputs
1x DVI1x HDMI2x mini-DisplayPort
Power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board number
C386-37

API Support & Features

DirectX
12 (11_1)
OpenGL
4.6
OpenCL
1.2
Vulkan
1.2
Shader model
5.1

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